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Florida Flood Stories

2,755 first-hand accounts of flood events in Florida, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Storm Surge/Tide

Coastal Broward County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Storm Surge/Tide

Coastal Miami-Dade County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Inland Palm Beach County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Coastal Broward County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Metro Palm Beach County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Metro Broward County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Inland Miami-Dade, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Coastal Miami-Dade County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Depression

Metropolitan Miami-Dade, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Palm Beach County, FL · Sep 3, 2019

Powerful Hurricane Dorian passed 100 miles to the east of Palm Beach County over the northwestern Bahamas. As Dorian tracked very slowly through Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, outer rain bands produced wind gusts of tropical storm force over Southeast Florida, with sustained…

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Tropical Storm

Coastal Dixie, FL · Sep 28, 2022

Hurricane Ian moved across the Florida peninsula. Although the most significant impacts were south of the area, tropical storm force winds did impact Dixie county with sustained tropical storm force winds measured at Horseshoe Beach and a few trees and power lines reported down…

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Flood

Miami-Dade, FL · Aug 26, 2019

A weak low formerly across South Florida slowly progressing towards the NE along with a weak frontal boundary over the region allowed convection to initiate across the region with scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms.

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Flood

Putnam, FL · Sep 18, 2022

A persistent upper-level trough lingered over the FL peninsula while the low-level trough axis was inland across NE FL. NE flow on the 'west' side of the trough axis was steering numerous showers with embedded thunderstorms to the SW across inland NE FL, some producing training…

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Flood

St. Johns, FL · Sep 8, 2021

A tropical low was approaching the FL panhandle from the Gulf of Mexico with deep tropical moisture on the east side of the system overspreading the local forecast area under SSW flow.

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Flood

Walton, FL · Jul 12, 2021

A quasi-stationary upper level trough centered across the central Mississippi valley remained in place as a large omega block upstream across the western conus, and a Bermuda upper level ridge worked together to keep the large scale flow pattern rather stagnant.

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Flood

Holmes, FL · Jul 12, 2021

A quasi-stationary upper level trough centered across the central Mississippi valley remained in place as a large omega block upstream across the western conus, and a Bermuda upper level ridge worked together to keep the large scale flow pattern rather stagnant.

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Flood

Holmes, FL · Jul 12, 2021

A quasi-stationary upper level trough centered across the central Mississippi valley remained in place as a large omega block upstream across the western conus, and a Bermuda upper level ridge worked together to keep the large scale flow pattern rather stagnant.

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Coastal Flood

St. Johns, FL · Jan 3, 2018

An unseasonably deep cold airmass was in place across the southeast region. An area of low pressure deepened near the Bahamas during the day as a vigorous upper level trough swept over the region from the west.

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Coastal Flood

Flagler, FL · Jan 3, 2018

An unseasonably deep cold airmass was in place across the southeast region. An area of low pressure deepened near the Bahamas during the day as a vigorous upper level trough swept over the region from the west.

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Flash Flood

Walton, FL · Feb 11, 2018

For the first time since January 2017, an event including both flooding and tornadoes impacted our area starting on February 11, 2018. Two tornadoes touched down across inland portions of the Florida Panhandle before sunrise, followed by persistent heavy rainfall that resulted…

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Flash Flood

Escambia, FL · Sep 5, 2018

Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi at 1015 PM CDT on September 4, 2018 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

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Flash Flood

Escambia, FL · Sep 5, 2018

Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi at 1015 PM CDT on September 4, 2018 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

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Flash Flood

Escambia, FL · Sep 5, 2018

Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi at 1015 PM CDT on September 4, 2018 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

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Flash Flood

Escambia, FL · Sep 5, 2018

Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi at 1015 PM CDT on September 4, 2018 with estimated maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

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